From lojban-out@lojban.org Sun Mar 25 13:42:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 10515 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2007 20:42:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m42.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2007 20:42:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net) (69.17.117.5) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2007 20:42:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 9381 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2007 20:41:17 -0000 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Mar 2007 20:41:17 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVZWX-0005gv-VJ for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:41:11 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVZW8-0005bh-Rb; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:40:48 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVZTt-0005am-Ey for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:38:25 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVZTs-0005ab-Qu for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:38:25 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:38:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20070325203824.GQ4403@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200703251436.37039.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703251436.37039.phma@phma.optus.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-archive-position: 13633 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -3.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: -29 X-Spam-Bar: --- To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 69.17.117.5 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: What's a better word for modals? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=nR_Q-4wE7-zIe_rYffQj1VGqnQTp-Zlziw6v-PZdkZK2aPrEJA X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 28080 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:36:35PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > The usual linguistic use of "modal" means a word like {ka'e}, or > in the Germanic languages, a class of verbs, defective in English, > with that semantic function, in which the original past tense is > used as the present. The word in the CLL means a preposition > derived from a brivla (all except {tai} are derived from gismu, > and {do'e}, which belongs to the same selma'o, is a vague > preposition not derived from any brivla). What's a better term for > them? sumtcita -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.